Cousid. 5. The Lords Servants, have ever found him to be a Prayer hearing God. Psal. 65. 2. O thou that hearest Prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come. All flesh, Believers, in all ages have experienced the truth of this. Unto which of the Saints can you turn you but they will every one say, this is truth may Soul knoweth it right well, God hath been as ready to hear as they have been to pray for mercy. Thus Daniel found it, that whiles he was speaking and praying, and presenting his Supplication before the Lord his God; an Angel was sent from Heaven, who informed him, that from the beginning of his supplication, he was accepted. Chap 9.20. 23. Yea, the Lord is more ready to give, then his Children are to ask; and therefore doth many times, bestow whose blessings upon them, which they intend to pray for, before they have an opportunity actually to seek his face, Isai. 65.24. Before they call I will answer, and whilst they are yet speaking I will hear. We read much concerning this in the Scripture; how God hath had respect to the Prayers of his People. And humane as well as divine Story abounds with instances to this purpose, as I have elsewhere noted. And may not we our selves set our Seals to this truth? ⟨p. 29⟩where is the godly man, but may do so? May we not say after Jacob, Gen. 35.3. God answered me in the day of my distress? and after David, 2 Sam.22.7. In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God, and he did hear my voice out of his Temple, & my cry did enter into his Ears. And as for those public solemn Prayers which have been poured out before the Lord, have not our eyes seen, that it hath not been in vain. In times of Drought, we have sought the Lord; and he hath sometimes sent a plentiful Rain, on the very day when his People were earnestly praying before him for that mercy. In the late War with the Heathen amongst whom we live, what great things hath the Lord done for us, in answer to Prayer? That mortal Contagion wherewith so many Families were afflicted but two years ago, Prayer hath prevailed with the Lord to remove it, and to heal this Land. Let us then resolve with David; (surely every godly praying soul hath cause to say, as he did,) Psa. 116.1,2. I love the Lord because he has heard my voice and my supplications, because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I shall live.
Cousid. 5. The Lords Servants, have ever found him to be a Prayer hearing God. Psal. 65. 2. O thou that hearest Prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come. All flesh, Believers, in all ages have experienced the truth of this. Unto which of the Saints can you turn you but they will every one say, this is truth may Soul knoweth it right well, God hath been as ready to hear as they have been to pray for mercy. Thus Daniel found it, that whiles he was speaking and praying, and presenting his Supplication before the Lord his God; an Angel was sent from Heaven, who informed him, that from the beginning of his supplication, he was accepted. Chap 9.20. 23. Yea, the Lord is more ready to give, then his Children are to ask; and therefore doth many times, bestow whose blessings upon them, which they intend to pray for, before they have an opportunity actually to seek his face, Isai. 65.24. Before they call I will answer, and whilst they are yet speaking I will hear. We read much concerning this in the Scripture; how God hath had respect to the Prayers of his People. And humane as well as divine Story abounds with instances to this purpose, as I have elsewhere noted. And may not we our selves set our Seals to this truth? ⟨p. 29⟩where is the godly man, but may do so? May we not say after Jacob, Gen. 35.3. God answered me in the day of my distress? and after David, 2 Sam.22.7. In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God, and he did hear my voice out of his Temple, & my cry did enter into his Ears. And as for those publick solemn Prayers which have been poured out before the Lord, have not our eyes seen, that it hath not been in vain. In times of Drought, we have sought the Lord; and he hath sometimes sent a plentiful Rain, on the very day when his People were earnestly praying before him for that mercy. In the late War with the Heathen amongst whom we live, what great things hath the Lord done for us, in answer to Prayer? That mortal Contagion wherewith so many Families were afflicted but two years ago, Prayer hath prevailed with the Lord to remove it, and to heal this Land. Let us then resolve with David; (surely every godly praying soul hath cause to say, as he did,) Psa. 116.1,2. I love the Lord because he has heard my voice and my supplications, because he hath enclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I shall live.
